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The Tomlinsons and other station keepers in Highland County
[Ohio-Highland County] '
Reply of Paul Tomlinson of Cedarville, Ohio.
Cedarville, Ohio, 5/30,1892.
W. H, Siebert:-
Thine of 23d to hand and noted. I was bom in Highland County, Ohio, seven miles east of Hlllsboro in 1834. My father and mother, Moses and Ruth Tomlinson, were Friends, (Quakers)and abolitionists, and their home became a station
on the Underground R. R., but at what date I cannot tell. One of the first incidents I remember was perhaps about 1840. My parents owned a carry-all honored with the name "carriage" which was a small wagon with oilcloth [covering], the springs of which were wooden bars running lengthwise inside the body or bed across which the seats were placed. (By the way, few farmers at that time boasted so much). At that time,of which I speak the top got to leaking and a white sheet had been placed over the top of the oilcloth. On that evening a neighbor brought a gang of runaways and was helping father to get started with them. As there were women and children as well as baggage, they de¬ termined to put them into the carriage but lo: when it was run out of the shed, it was white. The neighbor said, "I'll be d—d if that will do." The white cover was stripped off and tfte carriage took in its load of chattels, not the first of that kind perhaps, and certainly not its last. However, allow me to say here the most prosperous carrying trade in after years done

The Tomlinsons and other station keepers in Highland County
[Ohio-Highland County] '
Reply of Paul Tomlinson of Cedarville, Ohio.
Cedarville, Ohio, 5/30,1892.
W. H, Siebert:-
Thine of 23d to hand and noted. I was bom in Highland County, Ohio, seven miles east of Hlllsboro in 1834. My father and mother, Moses and Ruth Tomlinson, were Friends, (Quakers)and abolitionists, and their home became a station
on the Underground R. R., but at what date I cannot tell. One of the first incidents I remember was perhaps about 1840. My parents owned a carry-all honored with the name "carriage" which was a small wagon with oilcloth [covering], the springs of which were wooden bars running lengthwise inside the body or bed across which the seats were placed. (By the way, few farmers at that time boasted so much). At that time,of which I speak the top got to leaking and a white sheet had been placed over the top of the oilcloth. On that evening a neighbor brought a gang of runaways and was helping father to get started with them. As there were women and children as well as baggage, they de¬ termined to put them into the carriage but lo: when it was run out of the shed, it was white. The neighbor said, "I'll be d—d if that will do." The white cover was stripped off and tfte carriage took in its load of chattels, not the first of that kind perhaps, and certainly not its last. However, allow me to say here the most prosperous carrying trade in after years done